SwordWomanRiona
July 26th, 2011, 04:22 AM
Hi all! A little more than a week ago I went to our annual Tolkien convention, where, as usual, we had a lot of fun dressing up, doing archery, playing music, listening to conferences and so on.
And as usual, I think I was the one with the longest hair (:o), so I had a lot of fellow members, known and more or less unknown, commenting on it. Only the nice thing about Tolkien societies is that having long hair is a plus rather than a 'weird, uncomfortable thing', because you look more like an Elf if your hair is long, or something :D. I noted no one told me the typical 'Why don't you cut it?' thing, which is great.
Well, I'm starting this thread partly just to comment on that (because we longhairs are too much accustomed to being told the 'Why don't you cut your hair' thingie, are we not?), and also to seek some advice for a fellow member of the society.
Well, during the festive dinner she told me that she would give anything for my hair and that I had the loveliest hair she had ever seen :o:o. I can't deny one likes to hear such compliments, although I do think she was overestimating my hair a bit. Anyway, she has her straight hair near waist length, so I told her keep growing it, and you'll get to classic soon too. But she told me her hair won't grow any longer, it falls off when it begins to get longer than the length she had...:(
And I'm wondering, can that be because she has already reached terminal length, or maybe is it that she doesn't care for her hair well in some way or other? The thing is, not that many people try to care for their hair in an 'LHC way', so maybe there's something she could do so that her hair could get longer without falling off? Anyone has had a similar experience or knows how to treat that? :confused: It's just, it saddened me to think that I've met a person outside LHC who actually wants to grow her hair to classic, but can't!
Thanks for your help :)
And as usual, I think I was the one with the longest hair (:o), so I had a lot of fellow members, known and more or less unknown, commenting on it. Only the nice thing about Tolkien societies is that having long hair is a plus rather than a 'weird, uncomfortable thing', because you look more like an Elf if your hair is long, or something :D. I noted no one told me the typical 'Why don't you cut it?' thing, which is great.
Well, I'm starting this thread partly just to comment on that (because we longhairs are too much accustomed to being told the 'Why don't you cut your hair' thingie, are we not?), and also to seek some advice for a fellow member of the society.
Well, during the festive dinner she told me that she would give anything for my hair and that I had the loveliest hair she had ever seen :o:o. I can't deny one likes to hear such compliments, although I do think she was overestimating my hair a bit. Anyway, she has her straight hair near waist length, so I told her keep growing it, and you'll get to classic soon too. But she told me her hair won't grow any longer, it falls off when it begins to get longer than the length she had...:(
And I'm wondering, can that be because she has already reached terminal length, or maybe is it that she doesn't care for her hair well in some way or other? The thing is, not that many people try to care for their hair in an 'LHC way', so maybe there's something she could do so that her hair could get longer without falling off? Anyone has had a similar experience or knows how to treat that? :confused: It's just, it saddened me to think that I've met a person outside LHC who actually wants to grow her hair to classic, but can't!
Thanks for your help :)